Here's a little bit of information regarding the history of Internet. Hope that this document would be informative enough for you.

1. 1958-
President Einshower created the ARPA(Advance Research Project
Agency) which has been approved as a line item in Air Force appropriation bill.
1961- Leonard Kleinrock, a professor of Comper Science at UCLA writes first
paper on packet switching, "Information Flow in Large Communications Nets."
Paper published in RLE Quarterly Progress Report.
1962- J.C.R. Licklider & W. Clark write first paper on Internet Concept, "OnLine Man Computer Communications."

2. 1964- Paul Baran writes, "On Distributed Communications Networks," first
paper on using message blocks to send info across a decentralized
networktopology(Nodes and Links)
1965- First Network Experiment: Directed by Larry Roberts at MIT Lincoln
Lab, two computers talked to each other using packet-switching technology.
1966-
ARPA project begins. Larry Roberts is the chief scientist.

3. 1966- ARPANet contract given to Bolt, Beranek & Newman (BBN) in
Cambridge, Mass.
September 1, 1969-
First ARPANet node installed at UCLA Network
Measurement Center. Kleinrock hooked up the Interface Message Processor to a
Sigma 7 Computer.
October 1, 1969-
Second node installed at Stanford Research Institute;
connected to a SDS 940 computer. The first ARPANet message sent: "lo." Trying to
spell log-in, but the system crashed!

4. November 1, 1969- Third node installed at University of
California, Santa Barbara. Connected to an IBM 360/75.
December 1, 1969- Fourth node installed at University of Utah.
Connected to a DEC PDP-10.
March 1970- Fifth node installed at BBN, across the country in
Cambridge, Mass.

5. July 1970- Alohanet, first packet radio network, operational at
University of Hawaii.
March 1972-
First basic e-mail programs written by Ray Tomlinson
at BBN for ARPANET: SNDMSG and READMAIL. "@" sign chosen for its "at"
meaning.
1974-
Intelreleases the 8080 processor.
Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn publish "A Protocol for Packet Network
Interconnection," which details the

6. 1976- Apple Computer founded by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak.
Queen Elizabeth II sends out an e-mail.
Vint Cerf joins ARPA as program manager
.
1981- IBM announces its first Personal
Computer. Microsoft creates DOS.
1983- Cisco System founded.

7. November 1983- Domain Name System (DNS) designed by Jon
Postel, Paul Mockapetris, and Craig Partridge.
.edu, .gov, .com, .mil, .org, .net, and .int created.
1993- Mosaic Web browser developed by Marc Andreesen at University
of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana.
InterNICcreated.
Web grows by 341,000 percent in a year.
December 1994- Microsoft licenses technology from Spyglass to
create Web browser for Windows 95.

8. August 24, 1995- Windows 95 released.
January 10, 2000- AOL Merges with Time-Warner. AOL
shareholders take 55% stake in newly formed company.
January 2003- The SQL Slammer worm causes one of the largest
and fastest spreading DDoS attacks ever, taking only 10 minutes to spread
worldwide.
The Internet celebrates its 'unofficial' 20th birthday
.

9. December 2003-
The Research project "How much
information 2003" finds that Instant messaging generates five
billion messages a day (750GB), or 274 Terabytes a year and
that e-mail generates about 400,000 terabytes of new
information each year worldwide.
2005- Youtube.com launches.
2006- There are an estimated 92 million Web sites online

10. August 2006-
AOL announces that they will give for free virtually
every service for which it charged a monthly fee, with income coming instead
from advertising.
October 2006- There are an estimated 92 million Web sites online
(some stats say over 100 million)
Google Inc. acquires YouTube for $1.65 billion in a stock-for-stock transaction.
January 2007- Microsoft launches its various consumer versions of
Microsoft Vista.

11. Febuary 2007- Apple surpasses one billion iTunes download.
March 2007- 1.114 billion people use the Internet
according to Internet World Stats.
April 2007- Search engine giant Google surpasses Microsoft as "the
most valuable global brand," and also is the most visited Web site.

12. References:
http://www.webopedia.com/quick_ref/timeline.asp